Week 6

Sketch Two Completion

Sketch Two was completed this week. Our project is titled 'Energy Over Camera'. According to how much movement is in front of the camera, a different image will be displayed. The meaningfulness of this project can be extremely varied. One idea we have is to show how human effects on the environment can have negative consequences by showing a tree dying by however much movement is detected. On the plus side, we plan to add a reason for inputting the energy in the first place. Such as, depending on how much movement and energy is being inputted, a seed (for example) will grow into a flourishing plant.

How it works:

-The camera takes in a feed via a difference threshold. The difference is summed up by the amount of white pixels taken in and put into an integer. According to the integer a different image is displayed on the screen. The sum is calculated by a third-party library called cv.jit.

What it needs:

-More meaningful reason to input the energy.
-Feedback for the users so that they know their movement is having an effect (Done via a simple integer or percentage displayed on the screen).

Slides: PDF
Patches for PC and Mac: RAR